British Small Board Championship 1998: results

Tournament Name:

British Small Board

Tournament Date:

15 Nov

The 1998 British Small Board Go Championship took place in Milton
Community Centre on Sunday 15th November 1998. It was part of the
Cambridge Junior Chess and Go Club's annual congress. I think it was a
great success, but then I organised it. I think that other people
enjoyed it too. Michael Charles eventually won. We used the following
handicap system which was my recollection of the official BGA system.
Actually, I now think that the official BGA system has an even games as
9 komi, and then follow the pattern here. The general consensus was
that this system favours the stronger player. I would recommend the
system
that Cambridge Go Club uses for its end of term tournaments instead.

Grade diff.

Handicap

Komi

0

1

6

1

1

3

2

1

0

3

2

6

4

2

3

5

2

0

6

3

6

7

3

3

. . .

. . .

. . .

And the obvious pattern continues. Time limits were 25 minutes. The
tournament turned out to be a handicapped Swiss.

No.

Name

Grade

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Score

1

David Ward

3 dan

2-

4+

3+

11+

10+

5-

4

2

Alan Thornton

2 dan

1+

7+

5+

13+

6+

3-

5

3

Alex Selby

3 dan

4+

5-

1-

7+

8+

2+

4

4

Baron Allday

1 dan

3-

1-

18+

8-

12+

6+

3

5

Michael Charles

2 dan

6+

3+

2-

12+

11+

1+

5

6

Simon Goss

2 dan

5-

10+

8+

16+

2-

4-

3

7

Francis Weaver

6 kyu

8+

2-

10-

3-

15+

9-

2

8

Tim Hunt

1 kyu

7-

9+

6-

4+

3-

12+

3

9

William Brooks

13 kyu

10-

8-

14+

20+

13-

7+

3

10

Frank Visser

4 kyu

9+

6-

7+

19+

1-

16-

3

11

Herman Tittel

16 kyu

12+

16+

20+

1-

5-

13+

4

12

Nicola Hurden

16 kyu

11-

14+

15+

5-

4-

8-

2

13

Aaron Dixson

22 kyu

14+

17+

19+

2-

9+

11-

4

14

Sam Wakeford

20 kyu

13-

12-

9-

18+

17+

19-

2

15

Natasha Boddy

27 kyu

16-

20=

12-

17+

7-

18-

1½

16

Shawn Hearn

24 kyu

15+

11-

17+

6-

19+

10+

4

17

Kaley Wilson

34 kyu

18+

13-

16-

15-

14-

20+

2

18

Tom Cane

29 kyu

17-

19-

4-

14-

20-

15+

1

19

Lucie Elliott

34 kyu

20+

18+

13-

10-

16-

14+

3

20

Elizabeth Wayte

32 kyu

19-

15=

11-

9-

18+

17-

1½

Michael Charles and Alan Thornton were tied on 5/6 at the end. As a
tie break they had a play-off with 10 minutes on the clock and Michael
won.